Grenfell is a horrific consequence of a Conservative ‘leaner and more efficient state’

More than 200 firefighters were called to the catastrophic inferno that engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower on the Lancaster West Estate, Ladbroke Grove in north Kensington, on Wednesday morning.

Absolutely horrific accounts have emerged of the trapped families and children screaming from windows against the backdrop of an all-consuming inferno, some jumping to escape the blaze. There was a mother who dropped her baby out of a window from 10th floor, she was miraculously caught by a neighbour who had escaped, accounts of other people falling from windows, people walking over dead bodies in the dark of the smoke-filled stairwell, after finally being able to escape from their flats and unbelievably, accounts that the fire alarm system didn’t even go off to warn people that their lives had suddenly been plunged into pure horror, terror,their homes turned into a living hell.